{"id":13350,"date":"2011-08-25T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13350"},"modified":"2011-08-25T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:50:09","slug":"peer-to-peer-car-sharing-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/peer-to-peer-car-sharing-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Program RelayRides Attracts Big Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become a real fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/sunfiltered\/2010\/12\/distributed-car-sharing-ready-to-blow-up-in-california\/\">peer-to-peer car sharing<\/a> concept, and may even have to try it if a service ever becomes available here (because my car&#8217;s often just parked&#8230; why not make a little off of it). Still, I wondered if the business model itself would catch on, as some of the same liabilities we saw crop up with <a href=\"http:\/\/insteading.com\/2011\/08\/08\/legal-storm-brewing-for-airbnb-and-other-p2p-travel-sites\/\">Airbnb<\/a> would also apply here.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, some venture capital firms think those risks can be managed, as they&#8217;re putting money into one of the early start-ups in the space. I&#8217;ll let\u00a0Beth Buczynski of sister site <a href=\"http:\/\/insteading.com\/\">Insteading<\/a> take it from here&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"rpuArticle rpuJump-4 rpuRepost-3a5ed817ac082ed3bfad7fd2f22fc118-top\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s.tt\/135fj\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; background: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.curate.us\/img\/99fc9e9b174e5980fd0f972908bd8fb0?\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- put the 'tease' , 'jump' or 'more' break here --><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0To read the rest of the post, <a href=\"http:\/\/insteading.com\/2011\/08\/21\/sharing-news-relayrides-attracts-big-name-investors\/\">head over to Insteading<\/a>&#8230;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become a real fan of the peer-to-peer car sharing concept, and may even have to try it if a service ever becomes available here (because my car&#8217;s often just&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":13353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[5303,4369,519,5304,5305,5306],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Program Getting VC Attention<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Think peer-to-peer car sharing programs have a viable future? 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